shlep

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You probably know more Yiddish than you think, thanks to "Seinfeld," Heeb magazine and Jewish screenwriters, who made words such as shlep, klutz, nosh, shlimazel (remember the "Laverne and Shirley" hopscotch theme song?) and shmooze household lingo.

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  1. verb Slang Variant of schlep.

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  • You probably know more Yiddish than you think, thanks to "Seinfeld," Heeb magazine and Jewish screenwriters, who made words such as shlep, klutz, nosh, shlimazel (remember the "Laverne and Shirley" hopscotch theme song?) and shmooze household lingo. —  Articles
  • The year is 1998, and four friends shlep from Ohio to California to break into George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch and sneak an early peek at "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace." —  JAM! Showbiz
  • And in the unlikely event that we all suddenly develop a camel-like capability to shlep along eighteen devices between work and home, we've still got to keep them all charged, subscribed to, swaddled in a soft case and protected from the less-than-optimally-trained dog. —  TG Daily - All News
  • Salmon have to shlep all the way up some god-forsaken frozen river past hungry bears to spawn. —  Your Moral Leader
  • Either that, or he just didn't want to shlep a bunch of clams back through airport security. —  J. Weekly
 

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